Da Gama Bay Units

The village of St Helena Bay is situated along the shoreline of the Vredenburg peninsula, where it is one of only three places on a natural continental bay on earth that allows you to observe both the rising and the setting of the sun over the ocean.

St. Helena Bay lies approximately 150 kilometers north of Cape Town on the Cape West Coast. It is primarily a fishing village (or rather one of a string of fishing villages along the shores of the bay). The village stretches from Laingville through to Duykereiland with Paternoster and Saldanha Bay lying further south, and Laaiplek and Velddrif to the east.

It is also here, where you will find the newly renovated Da Gama Bay Holiday Units, named after Vasco Da Gama, the infamous Portuguese explorer, who anchored 7 November 1497 and walked ashore on 8 November 1497.

The premises is named after the infamous Portuguese explorer Vasco Da Gama, who came ashore on 8 November 1497, at what is believed to be the actual site of arrival down on the coast below us, and where a monument is now erected (see our Attractions section for more information).